. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. f the New Jersey HistoricalSociety. Edited and wrote three chapters of Bloomfield,Old and New, a history of that town published in the history of the churches of Newark, includingthe History of Newark, New Jersey, published in poem, The Ballad of Daniel Bray, is found in thePatriotic Poems of New Jersey. He is an occasionalwriter of poems, and contributes regularly a columnof historical matters, signed The Lorist. THE UNFINISHED WORK HE crowd was gone, and to the sideOf Borglums Lincoln, deep in awe,I crept
. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. f the New Jersey HistoricalSociety. Edited and wrote three chapters of Bloomfield,Old and New, a history of that town published in the history of the churches of Newark, includingthe History of Newark, New Jersey, published in poem, The Ballad of Daniel Bray, is found in thePatriotic Poems of New Jersey. He is an occasionalwriter of poems, and contributes regularly a columnof historical matters, signed The Lorist. THE UNFINISHED WORK HE crowd was gone, and to the sideOf Borglums Lincoln, deep in awe,I crept. It seemd a mighty tideWithin those aching eyes I saw. T Great heart, I said, why grieve alway? The battles ended and the shoutShall ring forever and a day,— Why sorrow yet, or darkly doubt? Freedom, I plead, so nobly wonFor all mankind, and equal right, Shall with the ages travel on Till time shall cease, and day be night. No answer—then; but up the slope,With broken gait, and hands in clench, A toiler came, bereft of hope, And sank beside him on the CHILDREN ON THE BORGLUM STATUE WENDELL PHILLIPS STAFFORD, son ofFrank and Sarah (Noyes) Stafford, born atBarre, Vermont, May 1, 1861. Educated atBarre Academy and St. Johnsbury Academy. Studiedlaw and attended Boston University Law School,graduating therefrom in 1883. Admitted to the barin 1883. Practiced law in St. Johnsbury until then appointed to the Supreme Court of to the Supreme Court of the District ofColumbia in 1904, which position he still holds. Married February 24, 1886, to Miss Florence Sin-clair Goss of St. Johnsbury. Has contributed to theAtlantic Monthly and other magazines. Publications:North Flowers (poems), 1902; Dorian Days (poems),1909; Speeches, 1913. 236 THE POETS LINCOLN 237 ONE OF OUR PRESIDENTS (See page 80) HE sits there on the low, rude, backless bench,With his tall hat beside him, and one armFlung, thus, across his knee. The other handRests, flat, palm downward,
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